Wallasey Round Table - Information on the round table group and what they do in the community.
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Society and Culture "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Society and Culture
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Society and Culture
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Society and Culture
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Society and Culture
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Society and Culture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Society and Culture "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Society and Culture "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Society and Culture
